| Description |
xi, 485 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-471) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- Correctness and its Origins / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey -- English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur -- Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mugglestone, Lynda.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
History of English |
| ISBN |
0199249318 (alk. paper) |
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9780199249312 |
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